Hi everybody it's Joe Lample the Joe behind Joe Gardner and welcome to the Joe Gardner show are you ready for another geek alert episode if you've liked the ones that we've done in the past on native bees similar to the geek alert episodes that we've done with Heather Home,

today's episode will be right down your strike zone, with today's guest Dr. Jessica Forrest.

Dr. Forrest is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa in the Department of

biology where she studies the evolutionary ecology of plant pollinator

interactions. How does that sound? I like it. A primary focus of her research

is in understanding ways that climate change and other forms of global change affect pollinators, especially native solitary bees and

pollination. And so far her work has primarily focused on bees and plants and

natural habitats. To me that sounds just like the kind of

sciencey conversation we could use right about now, and I think you will find

this episode very interesting. So that's what you're going to be hearing

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